If you are looking for some delicious way to start a full course meal in Vietnam then you should opt for any of the tasty Vietnamese soups. Vietnam is a well known southeast Asian country that is well known for its tasty cuisine. A large section of the international tourists who visited Vietnam have become great fans of this amazing Asian cuisine. There are a number of soups in Vietnamese cuisine that are very tasty and spicy. A Vietnamese soup dish is the ideal way to begin any Vietnamese meal.
If you are going to taste the Vietnamese cuisine for the first time and are unsure about which soups is to try, then you must go for the popular choice that is Canh Chua. The literal meaning of Canh Chua is sour soup and the soup has a sour taste as the name suggests. It is a kind of sour soup that originated in the Mekong river region of Southern Vietnam. This dish is made with fish, pineapple, tomatoes as well as some other vegetable. Bean sprouts are also added to the soup. The soup is flavored with tamarind and so the soup dish has a spicy, sweet yet sour taste. It is truly a feast for your taste buds.
This tasty soup is garnished with a special Vietnamese herb which is known as ngo om which has a lemony flavor. Other flavoring ingredients include caramelized garlic as well as chopped scallions. Depending on the variants of Canh Chua a host of other herbs and spices are also used. The spices include Vietnamese coriander, long coriander and Thai basil. This dish can also be made in the form of a hotpot. Canh Chua is very similar to a Cambodian dish known as Samlar Machu.
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